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Glebe Island

Livestock

Food processing

Glebe Island

Rocky outcrop bounded by White Bay to the west and north and Johnstons Bay to the east and south and linked to Balmain by causeway in 1840s. It was the site of abattoirs from 1850s to 1912, then levelled and used as wharves.

Glebe Island abattoir

Slaughterhouse on Glebe Island from the 1830s until 1915. The abattoir attracted related smelly industries and contributed to the noxious pollution of the bay, but provided fresh meat for Sydney.